Surfaces of metallic films and metallic nanoparticles can strongly confine electromagnetic
field through its coupling to propagating or localized surface plasmons. This interaction is …

Fluorescence is widely used in optical devices, microscopy imaging, biology, medical
research and diagnosis. Improving fluorescence sensitivity, all the way to the limit of single …

Fluorescence spectroscopy is widely used in biological research. Until recently, essentially
all fluorescence experiments were performed using optical energy which has radiated to the …

2 1 Introduction the most salient points are just that a molecule can exist in a variety of states
depending on how its electrons are distributed among a set of molecular orbitals, and that …

We present to a general readership an overview of the rich variety of phenomena and
applications that arise from the interaction of metallic nanoparticles with light. First, we …

The complementary optical properties of metal and semiconductor nanostructures make
them attractive components for many applications that require controlled flow of …

The structure functions g1p and g1n have been measured over the range 0.014< x< 0.9 and
1< Q2< 40 GeV2 using deep-inelastic scattering of 48 GeV longitudinally polarized electrons …

We present theoretical and experimental studies that explain the observed strong
enhancement of the magneto-optical (MO) Faraday rotation in all-metal core− shell Co− Ag …

The integration of surface plasmon resonance and fluorescence yields a multiaspect
improvement in surface fluorescence sensing and imaging, leading to a paradigm shift of …

We discuss the phenomenon of enhanced fluorescence in the proximity of metal
nanostructures addressing the question of how much fluorescence signal can be obtained …